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Mac OS X 10.5.2 Soon? New Seed.
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i'm down on it because i used dock folder hierarchical navigation all the damn time, and i never ever wind up using stacks, because it just doesn't seem useful. apart from the COMPLETELY LAME issue of how the stacks' appearances don't tell you which stack you're clicking on (unless you use the cool but inelegantly hacked solution of customized "put me first" icons), i have way too many items (mostly folders, and files with long names) in there for the grid view to give me any useful information. at all. i tried, but every time i clicked on a stack, i just stared at that undifferentiated, disorganized mess with all the file names truncated and not showing all the files in the first place, and just gave up.
i'm happy that HierarchicalDock showed up, but its access lag is kind of annoying, as is the inability to drag-and-drop items into the target folders.
so if they bring back list view, i will be a very happy user. i feel like the reintroduction of a stolen feature in a system upgrade should make me almost-appeased instead of happy, but certain really cool leopard features (plus the afore-mentioned hacks/add-ons, and have to mention xMenu here too) have mitigated my indignation.
i love you because i did not even know about menu search until just now. thank you!
quicklook is really very wonderful and has definitely increased my efficiency.
scrolling inactive windows is something i had never thought about pre-leopard, but it is amazing! i now use it all the time, and it feels wonderfully natural. this has been a tremendous boost.
these two features (plus laziness, and add-on quasi-solutions) kept me from downgrading to tiger to get my hierarchical list view back.
quicklook is really very wonderful and has definitely increased my efficiency.
scrolling inactive windows is something i had never thought about pre-leopard, but it is amazing! i now use it all the time, and it feels wonderfully natural. this has been a tremendous boost.
these two features (plus laziness, and add-on quasi-solutions) kept me from downgrading to tiger to get my hierarchical list view back.
I'm not so sure it does, my trackpad can tell the difference between one, two and three fingers being on it.
The one bug which is driving me nuts is when using a bluetooth modem, it hangs when disconnecting. The only solution is to reboot, delete the network settings and modem, reconfigure them, and also reset my phone to factory settings. I get this several times a day!
I think that 10.5.2. will be with us in next two weeks. The reason is simple 8800GT that was recently added as BTO option for Mac Pros makes a shipping order delayed by 3-5 weeks. Some people already have shipping dates around 11th february so if the speculation is right (that 8800GT is waiting for 10.5.2.) then we will see it in next two weeks. Lets hope 
I had same problem on one of the MBP's. There is a KB article on idisk syncing. Switch off idisk syncing, restart, remove Filesync folder in trash, restart, switch idisk sycing on again. It seems to work for me.
Still, there is something not right there, I hope they correct it with 10.5.2 (and the MBP keyboard issues, like ELP! and occasionally lights of caps lock and num lock burning)
Multi touch gestures & 10.5.2
I am wondering if there is a possibility of the enhanced gestures being incorporated into the 10.5.2 update. (I could only hope!). In the article in 'The Age' newspaper, Melbourne, Australia, Steve
s quoted as saying, "We learned from the iPhone and put it in our other computers." If I read it right, he is referring to more than 1 current machine, and 'put' sounds like it is in the past tense meaning it has already been done, as he could have said 'will be putting' if he only meant future machines ... Am I reading too much into it?! I figure that if the electronics of my MBP can detect more than 1 finger in contact, surely the gestures will then be purely a software issue? I so need a 'middle button-'click and hold' action. Anyone care to deliberate?
I am wondering if there is a possibility of the enhanced gestures being incorporated into the 10.5.2 update. (I could only hope!). In the article in 'The Age' newspaper, Melbourne, Australia, Steve
s quoted as saying, "We learned from the iPhone and put it in our other computers." If I read it right, he is referring to more than 1 current machine, and 'put' sounds like it is in the past tense meaning it has already been done, as he could have said 'will be putting' if he only meant future machines ... Am I reading too much into it?! I figure that if the electronics of my MBP can detect more than 1 finger in contact, surely the gestures will then be purely a software issue? I so need a 'middle button-'click and hold' action. Anyone care to deliberate?
I think that 10.5.2. will be with us in next two weeks. The reason is simple 8800GT that was recently added as BTO option for Mac Pros makes a shipping order delayed by 3-5 weeks. Some people already have shipping dates around 11th february so if the speculation is right (that 8800GT is waiting for 10.5.2.) then we will see it in next two weeks. Lets hope
Aren't you a smart little cookie
You're probably correct; I'd say 1-2 weeks to finish the update, then say a week or so to produce the custom restore DVD with the 10.5.2 merged
10.5.2
Does anyone have the following 10.5.1 annoying issue:
In a window containing many folders (in folder view), you scroll down until you find a specific folder. You open that, do perhaps some editing, and then go back with the Back arrow. I would then expect the first window to remember the position to which I have scrolled down to, but it is always scrolled to its uppermost position. Annoying...
Does anyone have the following 10.5.1 annoying issue:
In a window containing many folders (in folder view), you scroll down until you find a specific folder. You open that, do perhaps some editing, and then go back with the Back arrow. I would then expect the first window to remember the position to which I have scrolled down to, but it is always scrolled to its uppermost position. Annoying...
As a very (former) happy Leopard user, I am now hoping for 10.5.2 to solve a very irritating new problem...
I had Leopard running on my White Macbook (non-SR), but got upgraded to the latest MBP SR, and now most of the time when it wakes I have no trackpad and keyboard input. Variations of this seem to be very common on Apple's forums and a re-install does not help either...
Apple are ready to replace my machine, but I can safely say this is not a hardware issue. The keyboard and trackpad will work fine all day and night, as long as you don't close the lid for sleep...
Such an apparent simple fix somewhere - I do hope this is squashed for good in 10.5.2...
I had Leopard running on my White Macbook (non-SR), but got upgraded to the latest MBP SR, and now most of the time when it wakes I have no trackpad and keyboard input. Variations of this seem to be very common on Apple's forums and a re-install does not help either...
Apple are ready to replace my machine, but I can safely say this is not a hardware issue. The keyboard and trackpad will work fine all day and night, as long as you don't close the lid for sleep...
Such an apparent simple fix somewhere - I do hope this is squashed for good in 10.5.2...
10.5.1
My iMac G5 1st Generation has been upgraded and seems to have display issues. There are what i can only describe as lines of static running across the screen. Sometimes only a few intermittent and sometimes the entire screen is affected. Also at some stage my removable media drive has stopped being able to complete burning a disk, reporting a hardware error each time, part way through the process.
One bug that drives me nuts is Spotlight results which cant be sorted by label or file size, and i really don't care when a file was last opened! I'd like to sort by date created or modified (last saved). Also, iWork files and PDF files have strange file type names. This issue really makes this version of Spotlight seem like a Microsoft release. What was wrong with the previous Spotlight?
My iMac G5 1st Generation has been upgraded and seems to have display issues. There are what i can only describe as lines of static running across the screen. Sometimes only a few intermittent and sometimes the entire screen is affected. Also at some stage my removable media drive has stopped being able to complete burning a disk, reporting a hardware error each time, part way through the process.
One bug that drives me nuts is Spotlight results which cant be sorted by label or file size, and i really don't care when a file was last opened! I'd like to sort by date created or modified (last saved). Also, iWork files and PDF files have strange file type names. This issue really makes this version of Spotlight seem like a Microsoft release. What was wrong with the previous Spotlight?
I wonder whether it would be possible to plugin the $99 USB external super drive into the router and share the dvd over a whole network.
Are you talking about TM with an air disk? I thought that they got rid of that feature and have replaced it with TC, instead of making it a free feature part of leopard and TM they make a new product we have to buy.
weird innocuous devices bug
in finder windows, after i eject external drives, i often wind up with two copies of my internal hard drive listed in the "devices" section of the sidebar. they behave identically. doesn't seem to mess anything up, but it is pretty strange.
in finder windows, after i eject external drives, i often wind up with two copies of my internal hard drive listed in the "devices" section of the sidebar. they behave identically. doesn't seem to mess anything up, but it is pretty strange.
Probably going to be $100 or something to be able to get the software, if it is just a software patch.
System Prefs Problems.
I've been relatively happy with 10.5 so far except for one irritating problem: when changing desktop picture in System Prefs it will often hang and not show all of the images in the folder. If you change image folders it sometimes will hang and not show any of the images.
Anybody else seeing this problem?
I've been relatively happy with 10.5 so far except for one irritating problem: when changing desktop picture in System Prefs it will often hang and not show all of the images in the folder. If you change image folders it sometimes will hang and not show any of the images.
Anybody else seeing this problem?
Parental Controls/ Webkinz
Leopard's Parental controls are really screwed up. They knock out the dashboard widgets in other user accounts (Apple has a page on this one), they depopulate the dock on the controlled account from time to time, and they don't let kids use "webkinz" in Safari (the last problem is apparently due to Webkins using a whole bunch of different servers and domains, and is no fault of Apple's (there is a big thread on this in Apple's forums); however there has to be a 75% correlation between kids who need parental controls and kids on Webkinz.
Probably the main reason I bought an imac was so my kids could use it with parental controls; they are broken. I do realize that the best parental control is a big screen on a desktop in a family room (the other reason I bought an imac), but I'd like for this heavily advertised "feature" to work.
Leopard's Parental controls are really screwed up. They knock out the dashboard widgets in other user accounts (Apple has a page on this one), they depopulate the dock on the controlled account from time to time, and they don't let kids use "webkinz" in Safari (the last problem is apparently due to Webkins using a whole bunch of different servers and domains, and is no fault of Apple's (there is a big thread on this in Apple's forums); however there has to be a 75% correlation between kids who need parental controls and kids on Webkinz.
Probably the main reason I bought an imac was so my kids could use it with parental controls; they are broken. I do realize that the best parental control is a big screen on a desktop in a family room (the other reason I bought an imac), but I'd like for this heavily advertised "feature" to work.
Fortune Magazine
Back on topic... I would like the little bugs fixed. It's been since October now and my MacBook still goes to sleep and won't wake back up without shutting the lid and mail is almost virtually impossible to use at times.. etc.. it's the small things that can really drive people nuts.
